P****engers continue to route via deleted line (r2366)

September 24, 2009, 12:56:10 pm

Hi,

Using r2366 (102.0) with Pak64-102.0

I have a small network, at the point of the bug it was linking two nearby towns.
There's a local bus net in each town, based on a hub stop. There was originally a bus trunk line between the towns.
When this became overloaded (6 buses & demand rising) in only 3 months, I built a railway link, and to avoid risk during changeover, I diverted the trunk bus to run from the larger town's railway station while I built the railway. In the smaller town, the trunk bus stayed at the 'town hall' stop. The local buses there had the station stop added to their lines.

When the railway was complete, I activated the train line and deleted the bus trunk line (re****igning most buses to the busier local bus lines).
BUT the p****engers continued to route through the smaller town's 'town hall' stop. This resulted in large numbers of unhappy p****engers at each end of the former trunk bus route.
I even deleted the small town's 'town hall' stop, in which case the p****engers at that stop were lost, and the ones at the larger town's railway station re-routed to use the railway.

Success you may think. But when I rebuilt the small town's 'Town Hall' stop on the same site, p****engers returned to the former bus route.
In the end, I had to delete the small town 'Town Hall' stop and rebuild it one tile to the side. That has cured the routing (at no small cost to revenues though).

Any ideas? Sadly, I have overwritten the closest savegame (in a hurry to get out to work vaguely on time).

Cheers,
Tom

[can't find this one reported, please move if appropriate]

PS I've been using Simutrans on-and-off since the days of Hajo's solo work, but have not had time to actually play for over a year.
Still don't have time but need to relax a bit, so what the heck...it's such fun.
Using pak64 'cos it's easier, and I need the fun more than the challenge at present!
BTW well done to the developers, this is such a playable game. As a UK signalling enthusiast, I so love the PBS signalling. It's really very good, although sometimes a little restrictive in complex junctions / single line cases. They can be a nightmare IRL so no surprise there

Re: P****engers continue to route via deleted line (r2366)

Reply #1 – September 24, 2009, 02:10:05 pm

It seems that there is a bus remaining that serves the old inter-city bus line. Even if this bus is sitting in the depot it counts as being serviced. This way simutrans thinks that the old link is still in action.

Re: P****engers continue to route via deleted line (r2366)

Reply #2 – September 24, 2009, 02:34:31 pm

Hmm, I thought I de-routed all the buses (and I definitely deleted the line), but I suppose the bus might have a schedule without a line all the same.
Thanks for the pointer - it seems logical as there is one bus still in a depot.

Tom.

Re: P****engers continue to route via deleted line (r2366)

Reply #3 – September 24, 2009, 05:52:03 pm

Pending further confirmation of a bug, moving to Help Requests for now...